Child Abuse Midterm

• fam: father ruled(patriarchal)
• privacy(no outside intervention)
• self sufficency & isolation
• dependancy was unacceptable

• CHILDREN: seen as assets or expenses, could be abandoned, beaten or trafficked if you could not work
• Corporal/physical punishment was the norm

• seen as assets or expenses
• families do with them as they saw fit

• Seen as the norm
• went unquestioned

• forced/indentured labor
• i.e. poorhouses
• houses of refuge? trainign schools
• Orphan trains

• sent abused, maltreated, homeless children to develop farms out west with U.S. Christian farmers "for a better life" 
• emphasis on work

Mary Ellen Wilson (1874)

• (1962) Henry Kempe
• presented as a condition vs parental explanation
• entrenched abuse as a social problem

• (1974) Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act
• the 1st federal law that recog. child abuse as a social problem
• CPS is required in every state

• major social, legal, cultural institution
• Primary source of child rearing->riskiest place for kids
• Children are at greastest harm w/ family rather than strangers
• relational distance & interpersonal victimization are correlated

• Group of people who live together(or at least have regular contact) who are expected to perform special functions
• in this case Child rearing

• basic family needs/tasks 
• failure to deal with developmental changes (new child)
• crisis(financial, environmental, health)
• societal/cultural pressures (immigrants, child labor, early marriage)

• conflicting parent child relations
• ill equipped
• use child to fill void
• parentification: older child takes on role of parent (neglect common)
• Unreasonable expectations
• Idealization-sees things greatly
• Unreasonable expectations (abuse common)
• Obedience/Compliance

• Preg.
• prenatal care,preparation (Prematurity,underdev.)
• Birth-age 1
• bonding/attachment social support(failure to thrive, weight gain, crawling) communicative delays
• ages 1-4
• overall dev & boundry testing
• antisocial, delayed cog. skills
• Ages 4-8
• overall dev, social competence 
• lack boundries, hyper vigilance, sexual acting out
• Ages 8-12
• intellectual, physical, and social dev.
• parentification, hyper sexualized outcast, prob @school
• Adolescence
• overall dev & rebellion
• self esteem, body image, guilt, traumatic sexualization,anger

• doesn't know how to play
• interacting with others

• Antisocial:maladaptation targeted at others(violence, delinquency)
• self-injurous: maladaptation targeted at self (substance abuse, cutting,eating disorders
• Pro-social(resilience)
• healthy adaptation ability to overcome fears (school, athletics)

• temperament and personality: good attitude, problem solving
• Edu: talents/interest, scholastic success
• Social support: peers, mentors, coaches
• Ethnic& Cultural Id: Community, historical education

failed relationships, mental issues(depression, anxiety), unsure of parenting styles, spirtual(lost faith),emotions,health(disease, injury, eating disorder)

you must've misinterpeted, you mustv'e wanted it, get over it your an adult, your just trying to get them in trouble, thats in the past, your'e just making excuses

• self blame, guilt
• afraid to disclose 
• tony lost his spirituality , always in trouble for fighting failed relationships etc(hard time trusting men).

"any recent act of or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical harm or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm."

• 681,000 kids/yr.
• -79% neglect
• -18% physical abuse
• -9% sexual abuse

• act of ommission-depriving child of somthing they need by someone with care, control of child
• physical (hygeine,food, shelter)
• medical( failure to provide app. healthcare)
• edu: truancy
• psych: denying nuturing, denial of touch/ comfort

• act of comission- non -accidental or threatened imminent risk
• actions: slap, shove, kicking->burning, strangling, shooting

• least tangible form of abuse
• patterned destructive beh.
• what harms a child through behavior

• corruption-exposing to illegal activities(drugs)
• isolation- closing child off geograph. or having friends
• rejection: making them feel unwanted, never born
• terrozing: making them believe fearful things are actually true(monsters)
• ignoring: often non-verbal behav. pretend as if they are not there

• multiple injuries (diff. stages of healing)
• location of injuries
• identifiable marks -severity
• various reporters
• explanation v. presentation

• physical abuse, neglect
• mom w mental illness ->neglect->cycle ofabuse
• substance abuse psych. (witness father murder)
• sexual abuse(prostitiution)

seeing domestic violence is equal to being exposed to abuse.

• Batterer
• "performs well in public" 
• authoritarian style 
• under involved 
• undermines other parent, manipulative
• Victim
• well meaning
• neglectful,monopolized energy
• neglectful "failure to protect"

endangering child by exposing them to dangerous situations.

• use  of a child for sexual gratification, financial gain & or establishment of power.
• viewing, touching,penetration, exploitation

• Intra-in (incest)
• extra-(outside of family)

female victims typically older, more like interfamilial, longer duration, more likely to tell

opposite for guys.

• 90% male
• 50-70% victimized as children
• may be an outcast and lack self esteem
• sense of powerlessness
• may live double life
• stunted social & sexual dev.
• unhealthy adult relationships

• pedophilia: sexual intrest in children..many victims over many yrs (will not stop)
• Clergy: most associated with catholic preist, power and authority(deliver them from evil)
• ICP(Internet child porn.): collecters(stash of kidde porn, travelers(use internet to find minors) manufactors(produce material) chatters(chat sexually w kids)
• trafficking:modern slavery "acquisition of ppl by improper means such as force, fraud, or deception

• worldwide-680,000 9% of substantiated cases 
• coming into U.S.- 14,500-17,500
• domestic- 100-300,000

• mostly female (80%) 
• 50% minors

• engagement:(set-up): access, gauging, grooming(testing boundries)
• pressured sex-tricked, entrapment
• forced sex- threats, physical restraint
• sexual interaction: actual illegal behavior
• secrecy: manipulation, threats, ensures continued abuse
• Disclosure: intentional or unintentional
• Suppression: pressure to recant, stigma, conseq.

• neglect by mother , psych. abuse (not being held, nurtured) interfamilial
• Sexual by clergy and friends dad- extra familial

• Catholicism is a big part of her life, her family lived their life in the church and it was engrained in their upbringing.
• The fact that a priest was befriending ann was a good thing in her family eyes. They were proud to see this occurring and encouraged it. The priest could do no wrong in their eyes, which left ann exposed to abuse. even when she told her mom she said you probably misunderstood. A priest would never do that.